Prior to this, the company had announced it would be integrating Lens with Chrome on the desktop, as well, in the “coming months.” This April, Google also rolled out Lens-powered multisearch capabilities on mobile allowing users to search with both text and images combined - hinting at the company’s broader plans to further invest in Lens technology to make searches feel more natural. Previously, Google had offered Lens capabilities in Image search and Google Photos on the web, but its fullest offering was on mobile devices. Instead of opening a new tab to perform a search, you’ll be able to use Lens on the same page in your Chrome browser to do things like translating an image’s text, identifying an object in an image or getting the original source from an image.

Today, Google is rolling out a new way to use Google Lens on the desktop. Google has been working to better integrate its visual search tools from Google Lens into its browser to enable new types of searches that can identify what you see, not just search for things you type.